AWS IAM Identity Center: 7 Things You HAVE To Know 🔥
AWS IAM Identity Center is a successor to AWS Single Sign-On that makes it easy to centrally manage access to multiple AWS accounts and business applications.
Hi Guys, this is Abi from GokceDB and in this video, you are going to learn 7 things about IAM Identity Center in AWS. Let's get into it.
1. IAM Identity Center is built on top of AWS IAM to simplify access management to multiple AWS accounts, AWS applications, and other SAML-enabled cloud applications. The service lets you create or connect your workforce users for use across AWS.
2. IAM Identity Center eliminates the administrative complexity of managing permissions separately for each AWS account. It also helps improve access visibility by integrating with AWS CloudTrail and providing a central place for you to audit single sign-on access.
3. You can create and manage user identities in IAM Identity Center’s identity store, or easily connect to your existing identity source such as Microsoft Active Directory or Okta Universal Directory.
4. With IAM Identity Center, you get a unified administration experience to customize and assign fine-grained access. Your workforce users get a personalized user portal to access their assigned AWS accounts or cloud applications.
5. Users can also single sign on through the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), AWS SDKs, or AWS Console Mobile Application using their directory credentials for a consistent authentication experience.
6. IAM Identity Center is integrated with applications such as Amazon SageMaker Studio, AWS Systems Manager's Change Manager, and AWS IoT SiteWise for zero-configuration authentication.
7. You can enable single sign-on access to Amazon EC2 Windows instances with existing corporate user names, passwords, and MFA devices.
In summary, AWS IAM Identity Center is the recommended approach for workforce authentication and authorization on AWS for organizations of any size and type.
There you have it.